The Hollins Critic also offers brief reviews of books you want to know about and poetry by poets both new and established. And every issue has a cover portrait by Susan Avishai M.A. ’02.

Excerpt from June 2015

“James Alan McPherson and the Metaphor of Dance,” by James Robert Saunders. “These days, whenever I think of James McPherson I am reminded of Tia Sillers and Mark Sanders’ 2000 Grammy-award-winning song “I Hope You Dance,” with its call for the next generation to not take anything for granted in life and, instead, ‘dance’ whenever the opportunity to do so arises. This was not always how I viewed the fiction writer.”